Imec extends its CMORE service with a SiGe-MEMS foundry service and a multi-project wafer (MPW) service for universities and research centers via its EUROPRACTICE IC service. Both services are based on a monolithically integrated SiGe MEMS baseline process and come with an extended design kit.

Accelrys, Inc., a leading scientific informatics software and services company, will participate in the TechConnect World Nanotech Conference being held at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, CA, June 22-23, 2010. Accelrys will showcase its newly released Materials Studio Collection for Pipeline Pilot.

SEMATECH and International SEMATECH Manufacturing Initiative (ISMI) will highlight current research through a wide range of lectures and workshop sessions from July 13-15, in conjunction with SEMICON West 2010 in San Francisco, CA.

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced that Innofidei Inc., a leading mobile chipset provider based in Beijing, China, has successfully taped out the industry's first long-term evolution time division duplex (LTE-TDD, or TD-LTE) baseband chip supporting a bandwidth of 20MHz for the next-generation TD-CDMA wireless communications protocol.

Based on its recent analysis of the nanomaterial encapsulation technology market, Frost and Sullivan recognizes Vive Nano with the 2010 North American Frost and Sullivan Award for Technology Innovation for a unique encapsulation technology to synthesize nanoparticles.

Contour Energy Systems, Inc. an innovative portable power company commercializing next-generation battery systems, today announced a new limited subsidiary in the United Kingdom that will provide the company a strategic presence in advance of the rollout of new commercial battery systems in Europe.